As the Rotary Public Image Coordinators for New Zealand, the South Pacific Islands and Australia, we are keen to communicate regularly using this Blog. It will contain the latest Public Image news. We need to enhance our Public Image. It is our task to facilitate this and one method is using the Blog. We will be updating it on a regular basis. Do check it out and add the link to your Club web site and Bulletin. [PDG Leanne Jaggs (Zone 7b) & Wendy Gabroit (Zone 8)]

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Tawa kids love Rotary from A-Z

Tawa Rotary has enthusiastically adopted a project to give new
dictionaries to primary school students. This aligns with Rotary
International’s world-wide drive to support "literacy development". Since 2009, Tawa Rotary has given to each Year 4 student at
Hampton Hill and/or Linden Schools their own copy of a quality, hard
covered, Usborne Illustrated Dictionary, as its contribution to the
programme. In the first instance, Rotary has chosen to distribute these
dictionaries to schools that have a proportion of students from low
socio-economic communities.

This project is seen as a way to encourage the Year 4 student’s
reading with their own named dictionary. Tawa Rotary hopes that not
only will the child benefit from the dictionary but, by taking it home,
the whole family will get used to it – particularly if they don’t have
many books in the home.Rotary International has more than 1.2 million members with 34000
clubs worldwide. Last year over two million dictionaries were
distributed in the USA and approximately 20,000 throughout New Zealand.
The project has been taken up in other countries as well.Tawa Rotary supports this annual educational programme to assist
literacy of youngsters and their families in the local community.